AKhordha district-level BalyaBibahaPratirodhMancha was started with the support of UNICEF,Actionaidand CCWD at the Rotary Club of Bhubaneswar on Friday under the chairpersonship of Puspanjali Mishra, DSWO, Khordha. ManasiParhi, Member, CWC;DebabrataPatra, Associate Director, Actionaid;and Sadasiv Swain, CCWD, attended the meeting.
Total 45 adolescent girls and boys from different slums of Bhubaneswar participated in the programme, the focus of which was eradication of child marriage. The main motto of the forum is to address the problems of adolescents and try to solve them with different line departments.
The guests in the meeting stressedon stopping the teenager pregnancy in the district. They suggested the adolescents to attend the ADVIKA programme every Saturday in the AWCs where they can solve their problems through life skill education.